Fire Insurance Maps

Fire Insurance Maps

Author: Diane L. Oswald

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13:

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"Fire insurance maps are the footprints of America's Industrial Revolution, ... relics that bear witness to the mortality of businesses, industries and cities"--Cover.


Shades of L.A.

Shades of L.A.

Author: Carolyn Kozo Cole

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 9781565843134

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Shades of L.A., a collection of more than one hundred photographs selected from the family albums of eight different communities, makes available, for the first time, rare images of family life in Southern California. Taken not by outsiders reporting to the world, but by families recording their own history, these photographs are important cultural documents of the twentieth century. Together with a timeline of L.A.'s ethnic history, they give a compelling portrait of life in one of America's most diverse cities from the 1880s to the 1960s.